A slight shift of focus, and the future could still turn out like Deus Ex after all…
» The Game of Everything, Part 2: Playing Civilization The Digital Antiquarian
As a game designer, you have ultimate power. And with this ultimate power comes very little responsibility.
» Starcraft (A History in Two Acts) The Digital Antiquarian
Great success brings with it great expectations. And sometimes it brings an identity crisis as well.
» The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 1: SimEverything The Digital Antiquarian
I’m still to this day just blown away by continental drift and things like that, stuff that most people think sounds pretty boring.
» The Game of Everything, Part 1: Making Civilization The Digital Antiquarian
If my gravestone says, “Sid Meier, developed Civilization,” I’m happy with that. It’s a game I’m happy to be known for.
» The Last Adventures of Legend The Digital Antiquarian
The early days were the best. We had successes, we had fun, and we had a good business model. As the industry changed, everything became more complicated and harder.
An AI Future Is Much Shakier Than You Think
The ghosts of past futurism give pause to predictions of digital change.
» Riven The Digital Antiquarian
Sometimes success smacks you right in the face. More often, it sneaks up on you from behind.
Meaning after an AI eucatastrophe
Imagining this possible future illuminates meaning here and now as well.
» A Need for Speed The Digital Antiquarian
Your humble author in 2009, with his last even vaguely cool car, a 2000 Volkswagen GTI. I sold the GTI and left the United States that same summer. I wouldn’t own another car for ten years.
Digital Echoes and Unquiet Minds - Christopher Butler
There's a psychological burden of digital life even heavier than distraction.
» Choose Your Own Adventure The Digital Antiquarian
The first and most iconic of all the Choose Your Own Adventure books involved spelunking, just as did the first and most iconic of all computer-based adventure games.
Anti AI? Be Pro Human! - Sylvia’s Studio
This is the fifth post in my 'hitting the digital brakes'-series. These are the previous posts in this series: 1. the joys of imperfection 2. Do we really need the...
The Cult of AI
How one writer's trip to the annual tech conference CES left him with a sinking feeling about the future.
Digital Freedom
Roberta Fischli & Thomas Beschorner argue that our digital future is not preprogrammed: it’s about time we start thinking about what it should look like.
“The internet represents a closing of the parenthesis and a return to older models of understanding. Human consciousness in the digital age, which de-emphasizes the categorization that marked the age of print, makes us think in a way that is reminiscent of a medieval peasant.”
The Gutenberg Parenthesis
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